84R11023 KSD-D
	By: Meyer	H.B. No. 3483

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to limitations on the automatic admission of students to
	general academic teaching institutions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 51.803(a-1), (a-2), and (a-6),
	Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a-1)  Beginning with admissions for the 2017-2018
	[2011-2012] academic year, a general academic teaching institution
	[The University of Texas at Austin] is not required to offer
	admission to applicants who qualify for automatic admission under
	Subsection (a) in excess of the number required to fill 50 [75]
	percent of the institution's [university's] enrollment capacity
	designated for first-time resident undergraduate students in an
	academic year.  If the number of applicants who qualify for
	automatic admission to the institution [The University of Texas at
	Austin] under Subsection (a) for an academic year exceeds 50 [75]
	percent of the institution's [university's] enrollment capacity
	designated for first-time resident undergraduate students for that
	academic year, the institution [university] may elect to offer
	admission to those applicants as provided by this subsection and
	not as otherwise required by Subsection (a).  If the institution
	[university] elects to offer admission under this subsection, the
	institution [university] shall offer admission to those applicants
	by percentile rank according to high school graduating class
	standing based on grade point average, beginning with the top
	percentile rank, until the applicants qualified under Subsection
	(a) have been offered admission in the number estimated in good
	faith by the institution [university] as sufficient to fill 50 [75]
	percent of the institution's [university's] enrollment capacity
	designated for first-time resident undergraduate students, except
	that the institution [university] must offer admission to all
	applicants with the same percentile rank.  After the applicants
	qualified for automatic admission under Subsection (a) have been
	offered admission under this subsection in the number estimated in
	good faith as sufficient to fill at least 50 [75] percent of the
	designated enrollment capacity described by this subsection, the
	institution [university] shall consider any remaining applicants
	qualified for automatic admission under Subsection (a) in the same
	manner as other applicants for admission as first-time
	undergraduate students in accordance with Section 51.805.
	(a-2)  If the number of applicants who apply to a general
	academic teaching institution during the current academic year for
	admission in the next academic year and who qualify for automatic
	admission to a general academic teaching institution under
	Subsection (a) exceeds 50 [75] percent of the institution's
	enrollment capacity designated for first-time resident
	undergraduate students for that next academic year and the
	institution plans to offer admission under Subsection (a-1) during
	the next school year, the institution shall, in the manner
	prescribed by the Texas Education Agency and not later than
	September 15, provide to each school district, for dissemination of
	the information to high school junior-level students and their
	parents, notice of which percentile ranks of high school
	senior-level students who qualify for automatic admission under
	Subsection (a) are anticipated by the institution to be offered
	admission under Subsection (a-1) during the next school year.
	(a-6)  Not later than December 31 of each academic year in
	which a general academic teaching institution [The University of
	Texas at Austin] offers admission under Subsection (a-1), the
	institution [university] shall deliver a written report to the
	governor, the lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of
	representatives regarding the institution's [university's]
	progress in each of the following matters:
	(1)  increasing geographic diversity of the entering
	freshman class;
	(2)  counseling and outreach efforts aimed at students
	qualified for automatic admission under this section;
	(3)  recruiting Texas residents who graduate from other
	institutions of higher education to the institution's
	[university's] graduate and professional degree programs;
	(4)  recruiting students who are members of
	underrepresented demographic segments of the state's population;
	and
	(5)  assessing and improving the institution's
	[university's] regional recruitment centers.
	SECTION 2.  Sections 51.803(a-3) and (a-4), Education Code,
	are repealed.
	SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act apply
	beginning with admissions to a general academic teaching
	institution for the 2017-2018 academic year. Admissions to a
	general academic teaching institution for an academic period before
	that academic year are governed by the law in effect immediately
	before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is
	continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2016.